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The power of compound interest over long periods of time is not intuitive. For example, $10 with 10% interest compounded annually would be worth $1,174 after 50 years.compound interest = interest calculated on both the initial amount and on previous interest earned
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At the end of ten years they had paid everything, everything, with the rates of usury and the accumulations of the compound interest. (source)
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Try it — it's a compound-interest expansion.† (source)
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he shall pay for the thrashing he gave me with compound interest, I promise you.† (source)
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If a man had stolen a pound in his youth and had used that pound to amass a huge fortune how much was he obliged to give back, the pound he had stolen only or the pound together with the compound interest accruing upon it or all his huge fortune?† (source)
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I'm of sound mind—can reckon compound interest in my head, and remember every fool's name as well as I could twenty years ago.† (source)
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The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.† (source)compound interest = interest calculated on both the initial amount and on previous interest earned
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The name of this old pagan's god was Compound Interest.† (source)
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The longer the payment is withholden,[138] the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.† (source)
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These, it seemed, were calculations of compound interest on what he called 'the principal amount of forty-one, ten, eleven and a half', for various periods.† (source)
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Poor Mr. Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound interest of enjoyment, and that large drafts on his affections would not fail to be honored; for we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.† (source)
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The longer the payment is withholden,[138] the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.† (source)
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To question him in detail, and endeavour to reconcile his answers; to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners, learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy; was only to put the case out at compound interest and incomprehensibility.† (source)
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That was not particularly well; for he remained in the greatest perplexity, and, as the hours went on, and no kind of explanation offered itself, his perplexity augmented at compound interest.† (source)
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After a careful consideration of these, and an elaborate estimate of his resources, he had come to the conclusion to select that sum which represented the amount with compound interest to two years, fifteen calendar months, and fourteen days, from that date.† (source)
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Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.† (source)
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